Brian Michael Stableford (born 25 July 1948) is a British science fiction writer who has published more than 65 novels. His earlier books were published as by Brian M. Stableford, but more recent ones have dropped the middle initial and appeared under the name Brian Stableford. He has also used the pseudonym Brian Craig for a couple of very early works, and again for a few more recent works. The pseudonym derives from the first names of himself and of a school friend from the 1960s, Craig A. Mackintosh, with whom he jointly published some very early work.

Born at Shipley, Yorkshire, Stableford graduated with a degree in biology from the University of York in 1969 before going on to do postgraduate research in biology and later in sociology. In 1979 he received a Ph.D. with a doctoral thesis on "The Sociology of Science Fiction". Until 1988, he worked as a lecturer in sociology at the University of Reading. Since then he has been a full-time writer and a part-time lecturer at several universities for classes concerning subjects such as creative writing. He has been married twice, and has a son and a daughter by his first marriage.

David Lydyard (Werewolves)

Dark Future

Ghost Dancers, (GW Books May 1991) {as by "Brian Craig"}

Genesys

Serpent's Blood, (Legend May 1995)

Salamander's Fire, (Legend May 1996)

Chimera's Cradle, (Simon & Schuster UK March 1997)

Emortality

The first six volumes are considered the main sequence and were published out of series order; preferred reading order shown below is established from the author’s introduction to volume 6, The Omega Expedition. This series is also related to, though not always entirely consistent with, the 7 collections subtitled "Tales of the Biotech Revolution," see below.

The term "emortality," intended to indicate near-immortality as opposed to absolute immortality, is acknowledged by Stableford (in the acknowledgments to volume 3, Dark Ararat) to have been coined by Alvin Silverstein in his 1979 book, Conquest of Death.

In the introduction to his 2007 collection, The Tree of Life and Other Tales of the Biotech Revolution, Stableford describes this series as "tracking the potential effects of possible developments in biotechnology on the evolution of global society. [It can be considered] a modified version of the future history mapped out in A History of the World AD 2000-3000 (Sidgwick & Jackson 1985, written in collaboration with David Langford).

"The broad sweep of this future history envisages a large-scale economic and ecological collapse in the twenty-first century brought about by global warming and other factors, followed by the emergence of a global society designed to accommodate human longevity (although that is not necessarily obvious in stories set in advance of the Crash)."

The Cassandra Complex, (Tor March 2001); revised and expanded from:

"The Magic Bullet," (nv) Interzone #29 1989

Inherit the Earth, (Tor Sep. 1998); revised and expanded from:

"Inherit the Earth," (na) Analog July 1995

Dark Ararat, (Tor March 2002)

Architects of Emortality, (Tor Sep. 1999); revised and expanded from:

Les Fleurs du Mal, (na) Asimov’s Oct. 1994

Fountains of Youth, (Tor May 2000); revised and expanded from:

"Mortimer Gray’s History of Death," (na) Asimov’s April 1995

The Omega Expedition, (Tor Dec. 2002); revised and expanded from:

"And He Not Busy Being Born...," (ss) Interzone #16 Summer 1986

The Dragon Man: A Novel of the Future, (Borgo Press 2009; a stand-alone "Young Adult" novel; also available as an e-book)

The Empire of the Necromancers

The Shadow of Frankenstein, (Black Coat Press Dec. 2008) ISBN 978-1-934543-63-4; a fix-up of the following:

"How the Dragons Yetzirah and Alziluth Lost the Knowledge of a Million Lifetimes," (vi) *; revised from Star Roots #1 1989

"The Shepherd’s Daughter," (ss) Fear! Sep. 1990

"The Sleeping Soul," (vi) *

"The Dream," (vi) *

Collections

Stableford’s prodigious output of short fiction has allowed him to put together the following 20 collections with no overlapping of stories between them. Collections 1, 3, 7, 9, 14, 17 & 20 are subtitled "Tales of the Biotech Revolution" and are related to, though not always entirely consistent with, his "Emortality" novels, see above.

"Inherit the Earth," (na) Analog July 1995 {later expanded into Inherit the Earth, see above}

Beyond the Colors of Darkness and Other Exotica, (Borgo Press Aug. 2009; also available as an e-book)

Introduction, (in) *

"Beyond the Colors of Darkness," (ss) *

"An Offer of Oblivion," (ss) Amazing Oct. 1974; revised

"Enlightenment," (nv) *

"The Dragons Alziluth and Yetzirah," (vi) Fables and Fantasies, Necronomicon Press 1996 {revised from Star Roots #1 1989; aka "How the Dragons Alziluth and Yetzirah Lost the Knowledge of a Million Lifetimes"}

"A Saint’s Progress," (ss) *

Mens Sana in Corpore Sano, (ss) Violent Spectres #2 1995

"Black Nectar," (nv) *

"Nephthys," (ss) Peeping Tom #13 1994

"Plastic Man," (vi) *; originally appeared in Swedish in Norcon 99 program book, 1999